Recaps

Jiang Liu used the Power of Space Rule to reach Cloud City and reflected on the dangers and limits of spatial travel. At the cliff, he discovered traces of the Demon God beneath the Yin-Yang Fish Arrays and found that the array had returned to its original state, leaving him wondering whether it was warning him.

• Jiang Liu crossed great distances using the Power of Space Rule and compared it with the Data Panel's Fixed-Point Shuttle, noting that both required a sense of direction.
• Jiang Liu considered whether his understanding of direction could help him face the impending world-ending crisis, but he still did not know what it was.
• Jiang Liu returned to the cliff in the Cloud City Mountains and sensed traces of the Demon God beneath the Yin-Yang Fish Arrays.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Demon God might be using Yin-Yang Fish Arrays to pursue a hidden goal or evade the calamity, and decided to search the overseas seafloor for another array.
• Jiang Liu realized that the Yin-Yang Fish Array retained no one's aura and that the cliff he had once filled in had returned to its former appearance.
• Jiang Liu saw the Yin-Yang Fish Array turning in the forest below and wondered whether it was warning him.

Jiang Liu entered the Yin-Yang Fish Array and discovered that it had restored itself and linked to other arrays, teleporting him beneath the sea. Trapped there as the seabed began to shake, he wondered whether the disturbance was why the array had brought him there.

• Jiang Liu set a shuttle point above the Yin-Yang Fish Array and plunged inside.
• Jiang Liu realized the earlier landscape had been an illusion and used his Divine Sense to inspect the restored array.
• Jiang Liu found that the Yin-Yang Illusion Formation had returned, but the Devil Race's Gathering Qi Formation and the Demon God's avatar had not.
• Jiang Liu tried to leave, but the array bounced him back and he heard waves beyond it, realizing he had been teleported away from the Cloud City Mountains.
• Jiang Liu sensed the seabed beneath him tremble and wondered whether the disturbance had caused the array to bring him there.

Jiang Liu realized the Yin-Yang Fish Arrays were linked by a single formation with three souls, explaining how he had been teleported between them and why a familiar presence watched him. He remained trapped beneath the sea as he suspected a vast force lay behind the arrays.

• Jiang Liu woke when the underwater Yin-Yang Fish Array changed and decided he needed to escape, though he feared he might not find the array again.
• Jiang Liu sensed the same watcher he had felt near the Secret Passage and reasoned that the watcher was likely the array’s Formation Spirit.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the three Yin-Yang Fish Arrays shared one formation and three souls, allowing them to connect and teleport between locations.
• Jiang Liu marveled at the creator’s mastery of formations, souls, and power, and suspected that more than one person stood behind the arrays.

Jiang Liu reasoned that the Yin-Yang Fish Array had been created by Human Race martial artists who had escaped the Human Realm and might cultivate dual rules. After the array teleported him beneath the seabed, a man in white far from the Human Realm noticed its unexpected activity and sought to divine the cause.

• Jiang Liu concluded that the Yin-Yang Fish Array had been set up to monitor changes in the Human Realm and that its creators were likely powerful Human Race martial artists who had escaped the Three Rule Lords’ notice.
• Jiang Liu suspected the array recognized his dual rules and had therefore treated him as one of its own rather than attacking him.
• Violent movement rumbled beneath the seabed, but the Yin-Yang Fish Array remained steady and its Formation Spirit did not appear.
• A dim star stone showed Jiang Liu being teleported beneath the lake, and a man in white said the Yin-Yang Fish Array had revealed itself earlier than expected.
• The man in white wondered whether an unforeseen change had occurred and scattered bamboo sticks into the sky to divine what was happening.

Zhuge Cheng discovered that someone had triggered the Yin-Yang Fish’s teleportation and divined that the situation affecting the Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion’s plans had changed. After reassuring Huangfu Hao and the others that the overall situation remained intact, he left to investigate.

• Zhuge Cheng used the Heaven Calculation Tokens to divine after a change appeared at the Yin-Yang Fish.
• Huangfu Hao and the Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion members gathered and asked Zhuge Cheng what had happened.
• Zhuge Cheng revealed that a Supreme God Realm martial artist who cultivated dual Rules had triggered the Yin-Yang Fish’s teleportation but had shown it no hostility.
• Zhuge Cheng said the divination showed that circumstances had changed, though the general situation remained the same.
• Huangfu Hao agreed to let Zhuge Cheng investigate, and Zhuge Cheng took the Heaven Calculation Tokens and flew into the void.

Zhuge Cheng discovered that a new Time-Space Rule cultivator had stirred the Yin-Yang Fish Array, so he traveled from Heaven's Mandate Pavilion to the Human Realm to investigate. He arrived at the ruined array and found traces of demonic energy, suggesting the Devil Race might be connected to its destruction.

• Huangfu Hao suspected Zhuge Cheng had uncovered a danger involving the Yin-Yang Fish Array, but he let him leave without explaining his suspicions to the others.
• Zhuge Cheng used a bamboo slip to reveal Jiang Liu and realized another martial artist cultivating the Time-Space Rule had appeared in the Human Realm.
• Zhuge Cheng activated a Yin-Yang Fish phantom and used it to travel directly to the array in the Cloud City Mountains.
• The array's sudden radiance frightened the exotic beasts and drew the attention of martial artists exploring the mountains.
• Zhuge Cheng found the area destroyed and discovered that demonic energy had once been present there.

Zhuge Cheng found traces of the Devil Race at the central Yin-Yang Fish Array and left after suppressing several intruders who approached it. Jiang Liu sensed a catastrophic disturbance beneath the sea and wondered whether it foreshadowed the coming world-ending crisis.

• Zhuge Cheng found evidence that a Devil Race member had once been at the central Yin-Yang Fish Array and repaired the formation.
• Zhuge Cheng used his Divine Sense to stop several martial practitioners from reaching the array, then teleported away.
• Jiang Liu felt tremors shaking the seabed and cautiously sent his Divine Sense beyond the Yin-Yang Fish Array.
• Jiang Liu saw violent currents, flying rocks, and sea beasts torn apart by the chaos beneath the sea.
• Jiang Liu wondered whether the disaster was a warning of the inexplicable world-ending crisis.

Jiang Liu realized the Yin-Yang Fish Array’s creator might return and prepared to face him, but attacked the arriving figure before learning his identity. His assault disrupted the teleportation, leaving Zhuge Cheng trapped in the void space as Jiang Liu wondered whether he would die there.

• Jiang Liu concluded that the array’s creator might have a way to escape the coming catastrophe and grew wary of his possible return.
• The Yin-Yang Fish Array activated, and Jiang Liu recognized that it was teleporting someone to him.
• Jiang Liu attacked the forming phantom with the Godslayer Blade, but the array’s white light blocked his strikes.
• Zhuge Cheng, still trapped in the void space and unable to control his body, relied on the array to defend himself.
• Jiang Liu’s Phantom Stomp shook the array and appeared to halt the teleportation, leaving Zhuge Cheng stuck in the void.

Jiang Liu attacked Zhuge Cheng, who was trapped in the Yin-Yang Fish Array’s teleportation void, and discovered that his time-space blade strike arrived before his suppressive force. Zhuge Cheng briefly regained his freedom of movement before being pinned again, while the array’s Formation Spirit struggled to find a way to save him.

• Jiang Liu decided to exploit Zhuge Cheng’s predicament and considered the advantages of learning from the creator of the Yin-Yang Fish Array.
• Zhuge Cheng grew anxious as he realized the array’s teleportation had a flaw and feared Jiang Liu’s attacks would overwhelm its defenses.
• The Yin-Yang Fish Array’s Formation Spirit, one-third of the original spirit, tried in vain to rescue Zhuge Cheng from the teleportation void.
• Jiang Liu attacked Zhuge Cheng with the Godslayer Blade and the Power of Time-Space Rule, but his blade ray passed through the phantom.
• Zhuge Cheng moved again and tried to escape, but Jiang Liu’s Phantom Stomp arrived afterward and pinned him in place once more.

Jiang Liu wounded Zhuge Cheng by sending the Godslayer Blade through the void, but Zhuge Cheng recovered his severed arm and prepared to fight. As Zhuge Cheng began using the Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slip, Jiang Liu struck at it, and the chapter ended with the bamboo slip flying back toward Zhuge Cheng.

• Jiang Liu combined two Powers of Rule Light with the Godslayer Blade and used Divine Strike to reach Zhuge Cheng’s true body, severing one of his arms.
• Zhuge Cheng emerged from the teleportation space, and his severed arm’s ejection disrupted the Yin-Yang Fish Array until he stabilized it with origin energy.
• Zhuge Cheng reattached his arm, though it had not fully recovered, and released his momentum toward Jiang Liu.
• Zhuge Cheng raised the Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slip to draw a pattern, but Jiang Liu’s blade aura struck it and sent it flying toward him.

Jiang Liu fought Zhuge Cheng inside the Yin-Yang Fish Array, where Zhuge Cheng used spirit attacks and the array’s power to gain the advantage. Zhuge Cheng restrained Jiang Liu and examined him, still showing no intent to kill him.

• Zhuge Cheng hurled Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips at Jiang Liu and attacked his Divine Sea with the Mind Control Rule.
• Jiang Liu resisted the spirit attack and dodged the bamboo slips, but the rotating Yin-Yang Fish Array pulled him downward.
• Zhuge Cheng launched a small Yin-Yang Fish pattern, and Jiang Liu destroyed it with Divine Strike.
• Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips trapped Jiang Liu as Zhuge Cheng closed in.
• Zhuge Cheng examined the restrained Jiang Liu and wondered how someone so young had cultivated such strength.

Jiang Liu broke free of Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule with help from the Data Panel and injured him again, prompting them to stop fighting before the Yin-Yang Fish Array was damaged. Zhuge Cheng began trying to win Jiang Liu over, while Jiang Liu stayed wary and considered asking him about the array.

• Jiang Liu escaped Zhuge Cheng’s control and used a hidden Ice Blade to reopen Zhuge Cheng’s injured arm.
• Jiang Liu attacked with the Godslayer Blade, and Zhuge Cheng blocked the blows with Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips as the Yin-Yang Fish Array trembled.
• Zhuge Cheng called for them to stop fighting, and Jiang Liu put away his blade while remaining cautious.
• Jiang Liu realized the Yin-Yang Fish Array could conceal auras and teleport people, and wondered whether Zhuge Cheng would teach him its secrets.
• Zhuge Cheng complimented Jiang Liu and began trying to win him over.

Zhuge Cheng tried to recruit Jiang Liu into Heaven's Mandate Pavilion by promising that it could protect him from the War of Rules. Jiang Liu pretended to consider the offer so he could learn about Zhuge Cheng's force and the Human Realm's past, while remaining wary of any binding contract.

• Jiang Liu suspected Zhuge Cheng was flattering him because he wanted something, and demanded to know his purpose.
• Zhuge Cheng asked whether Jiang Liu knew about the War of Rules and offered to help him avoid becoming cannon fodder.
• Jiang Liu considered accepting so he could learn about Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and the Human Realm's history, but worried about being bound by a spiritual contract.
• Zhuge Cheng revealed that his force was called Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and promised Jiang Liu could evade the war by joining and entering its Dim Starstone.
• Jiang Liu asked what he would have to do to join, still convinced Zhuge Cheng's offer came with a catch.

Zhuge Cheng tried to recruit Jiang Liu into the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion through a mysterious oath-mark, but Jiang Liu questioned the benefits and remained wary. Zhuge Cheng offered him a precious Star Source Stone, leaving Jiang Liu suspicious about what the man wanted in return.

• Zhuge Cheng summoned a rune-covered mark and told Jiang Liu to place his hand on it and swear not to betray the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.
• Jiang Liu sensed something suspicious about the mark and asked what benefits joining the faction would bring beyond avoiding the War of Rules.
• Zhuge Cheng considered Jiang Liu's youth and cultivation, then offered him a Star Source Stone as a joining benefit.
• Jiang Liu took the stone, sensed its pure and abundant Power of Rule, and grew more cautious about Zhuge Cheng's motives.

Zhuge Cheng tried to recruit Jiang Liu into Heaven's Mandate Pavilion by offering resources and protection, while hiding that the Star Source Stone was the only benefit he could actually provide. Jiang Liu saw through the deception and planned to use Zhuge Cheng's desire to recruit him to learn about the Yin-Yang Fish Great Bell, the Human Realm's calamity, and the Three Realms' secrets.

• Zhuge Cheng gave Jiang Liu a Star Source Stone and hoped the gift would bind him to Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.
• Zhuge Cheng explained that the Human Realm lacked Divine Nature, preventing it from producing the Power of Rule, and said the surviving experts had left partly to avoid the Three Rule Lords.
• Zhuge Cheng promised Jiang Liu future cultivation resources and protection in the void, though he privately knew Heaven's Mandate Pavilion could not guarantee either.
• Jiang Liu recognized Zhuge Cheng's promises as empty and decided to ask him for answers about the Yin-Yang Fish Great Bell, the Human Realm's calamity, and the war between the Human Race and the God Race.

Jiang Liu decided to join Heaven's Mandate Pavilion temporarily, but tried to bargain for more information and resources from Zhuge Cheng. As Heavenly Dao approached and sent Jiang Liu a message about trouble outside, Jiang Liu's aura surged and he grew enraged.

• Jiang Liu decided to join Heaven's Mandate Pavilion temporarily while remaining wary that Zhuge Cheng might tamper with his imprint.
• Jiang Liu tried to obtain more information or items from Zhuge Cheng, who worried that the growing commotion outside would overwhelm the Yin-Yang Fish Array.
• Jiang Liu sensed Heavenly Dao approaching and suspected someone from the Void Faction Alliance or Devil Race had been causing trouble in the Human Realm.
• Heavenly Dao sent a strand of consciousness into Jiang Liu's Divine Sea, and Jiang Liu's momentum surged as he became furious.
• Zhuge Cheng began mobilizing the Yin-Yang Fish Array to investigate the disturbance outside.

Jiang Liu escaped the Yin-Yang Fish Array and found a cataclysm unfolding at sea, reminiscent of the disaster that had crippled the Human Realm. After splitting a sea dragon with the Godslayer Blade, he realized it contained a fragment of someone’s Divine Soul.

• Zhuge Cheng used the Yin-Yang Fish Array to observe the chaos outside and recognized it as resembling the cataclysm that had once devastated the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu passed through the Yin-Yang Fish Array, layered origin energy barriers around himself, and flew through the raging sea to the surface.
• Jiang Liu saw the Heavenly Dao battling a black light and was attacked by a Divine Realm sea dragon.
• Jiang Liu cut the sea dragon in two with the Godslayer Blade, and a distant scream revealed that it contained a fragment of someone’s Divine Soul.

Jiang Liu learned that the attack on the Heaven Dao and the storm stemmed from a hidden cause tied to the Human Realm, and he moved to help resolve the crisis. Beneath the sea, Zhuge Cheng recognized the disaster and realized the Yin-Yang Fish Array had warned of it, while fearing the damage could erase the Human Realm’s newly recovered vitality.

• Jiang Liu captured information from the fading divine soul of the sea dragon he had cleaved apart and learned that the Human Realm’s troubles and the storm shared a cause.
• Jiang Liu decided to help the Heaven Dao first and swiftly headed toward the high skies.
• Zhuge Cheng left the Yin-Yang Fish Array and saw a disaster resembling the human calamity he had survived before.
• Zhuge Cheng recalled creating the three Yin-Yang Fish Arrays to monitor the Human Realm and predict the true catastrophe, and he realized the arrays had activated to warn of this disaster.
• Zhuge Cheng sensed that the storm had dealt the Human Realm a severe blow and feared its recovered vitality and martial cultivation might disappear.

Jiang Liu discovered that the person attacking the Heavenly Dao held a status in the Human Realm comparable to or greater than its own, but he drew the Godslayer Blade and prepared to fight. The Heavenly Dao resisted more fiercely as it realized its attacker could suppress it but could not truly kill it, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Jiang Liu sensed that the attacker was not suppressed by Human Realm Space and suspected his status exceeded the Heavenly Dao's.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Godslayer Blade, gathered the Power of Rule on it, and prepared to attack despite the pressure.
• The attacker intensified his assault on the Golden Giant after recognizing Jiang Liu as a dangerous dual-rule martial artist.
• The attacker tried to shame the Golden Giant for being subdued by a slave, but the Heavenly Dao continued fighting and began counterattacking.
• The attacker recalled that he had unleashed the heavenly disaster to seize control of the Human Realm, but found the newly changed Heavenly Dao blocking him.

Jiang Liu discovered that his spiritual attacks could weaken the mysterious figure, whose divine soul had been damaged after Jiang Liu destroyed its fragment in a sea dragon. As the Golden Giant kept attacking the figure, Jiang Liu realized his control of the Heavenly Dao had also caused the Human Realm’s Heaven and Earth Essence to transform, triggering the current natural-disaster crisis.

• Jiang Liu’s earlier control of the Heavenly Dao and breakthrough to the Supreme God Realm had caused the Human Realm’s essence to transform and awakened the mysterious figure.
• Jiang Liu attacked the figure with the Godslayer Blade, but his strike passed through it and continued toward the Golden Giant.
• Jiang Liu used the Phantom Soul Flute to play the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation, and the figure faltered under the spiritual attack.
• Jiang Liu realized the figure’s divine soul was incomplete because he had destroyed its fragment within a sea dragon.
• The Golden Giant struck the weakened figure and sent it flying, then launched another attack with its golden greatsword.

Jiang Liu’s xiao music and the Golden Giant’s attacks drove the Human Realm Core’s consciousness toward unconsciousness as it weighed whether to summon its true body. The chapter explained the Human Realm’s three great rulers and ended with four walls of light trapping the figure.

• Jiang Liu intensified his mental-force attacks while the Golden Giant struck the struggling figure, pushing it toward a controlled coma.
• The figure recalled its agreement with the Human Realm Core: if it dealt with the other two rulers, it could gain a physical body of its own.
• The chapter identified the Heavenly Dao, the Essence Spirit, and the Human Realm Core as the Human Realm’s three great rulers, and explained their conditions and roles.
• The Human Realm Core’s consciousness realized that Jiang Liu had disrupted its plan to take control of the New Heavenly Dao.
• Four invisible walls of light appeared and trapped the figure as it began to fall asleep.

Jiang Liu learned from the Golden Giant that the trapped consciousness was the Human Realm Core, whose mutation was causing upheaval across the Human Realm. He restrained his anger after realizing he could neither destroy nor restore it, while Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule quietly helped calm him.

• Jiang Liu observed the violent sea, gathering storm clouds, and chaotic vital energy, and suspected the trapped consciousness was behind the Human Realm’s mutation.
• The Golden Giant recovered enough to tell Jiang Liu that the consciousness was the Human Realm Core, an existence whose presence suppressed Human Race martial artists.
• Jiang Liu realized the Human Realm Core had caused the current crisis but that destroying it would destroy the Human Realm, while restoring it was beyond his power.
• Jiang Liu’s fury subsided without his noticing that Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule had influenced his emotions and prevented the situation from spiraling into chaos.

Zhuge Cheng’s Celestial Calculation Art showed him Jiang Liu fighting the Human Realm Core, but his deduction was distorted by Jiang Liu’s hidden aura and Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule. As Jiang Liu struggled to find the Human Realm Core’s true form without harming its fragile consciousness body, Zhuge Cheng offered to reveal what he knew.

• Zhuge Cheng deduced that Jiang Liu’s Soul-Searching Technique had destroyed the consciousness body and awakened the Human Realm Core, which then fought Jiang Liu and destroyed the Human Realm Space.
• Zhuge Cheng sensed a change in Jiang Liu and became wary, unaware that his calculation had been distorted by Jiang Liu’s Data Panel.
• Jiang Liu seized the Phantom Sound Space and tried to shrink it with the Space Rule while weighing the danger of using the Soul-Searching Technique on the fragile consciousness body.
• Zhuge Cheng approached Jiang Liu in a newly respectful manner and recognized that he was trying to locate the consciousness body’s true form.
• Zhuge Cheng told Jiang Liu that he knew something about where the true form was, and Jiang Liu eagerly listened.

Jiang Liu weighed the danger of confronting the Human Realm Core and decided to seek it out to stop the Human Realm's worsening turmoil. Zhuge Cheng agreed to lead him to its location, though he remained worried about Jiang Liu's decision.

• Jiang Liu studied Zhuge Cheng's changed attitude and considered what secret Zhuge Cheng might have learned about him.
• Jiang Liu judged that the Human Realm Core could not be underestimated, despite having defeated one of its incarnated bodies of consciousness.
• Jiang Liu considered the Human Realm's growing crisis and the demon god's unexplained interest in the realm.
• Jiang Liu asked Zhuge Cheng to lead him to the Human Realm Core.
• Zhuge Cheng realized Jiang Liu already knew the mastermind's identity, suppressed his concern, and flew ahead.

Jiang Liu sent the injured Golden Giant back to stabilize the Human Realm, then followed Zhuge Cheng toward the Human Realm Core. At the open sea, Zhuge Cheng asked whether Jiang Liu was certain he wanted to proceed, leaving Jiang Liu weighing the danger to the already troubled Human Realm.

• Jiang Liu sent the Golden Giant back to the Human Realm and stored the consciousness body in his System Space.
• Jiang Liu followed Zhuge Cheng, whose suspicions about Jiang Liu’s true strength grew as they traveled.
• Jiang Liu wondered why Zhuge Cheng was leading him overseas to find the Human Realm Core and considered the risks of confronting it.
• Jiang Liu and Zhuge Cheng reached the turbulent open sea, where Zhuge Cheng stopped and asked whether Jiang Liu was certain he wanted to find the Human Realm Core.
• Jiang Liu hesitated as he considered how a battle with the Human Realm Core might affect the Human Realm.